Aspiration is looking forward to delivering another webinar in TechSoup’s most excellent webinar series, entitled Integrating Social Media into Your Website.

The webinar will be offered twice: Tuesday, January 19th (REGISTRATION FULL), and Thursday, February 4th at 11am (Register for free now!)

Webinar Overview

More and more organizations are benefiting from using social media tools like blogs, Facebook, and Twitter in their online communications. While the tools can be relatively straightforward to learn and adopt, many organizations struggle with how to effectively align messaging and communications across their online channels.

This webinar will focus on best practices for integrating social media into organizational websites, including basic nuts-and-bolts changes to web page templates and enhancements to contact, staff, and email sign-up pages. Effective and simple processes for coordinating various channels and maximizing traffic between them will be explained. In addition, a range of contrasts will be drawn describing the different natures and uses of the respective channels, and methods for measuring how different channels are driving traffic to one another will be presented.

Hot off the presses, our end-of-year newsletter is yours for the clicking. In this edition:

• Nonprofit Software Dev Summit Caps a Rich Year of Events
• eAdvocacy Mentoring and Capacity Building Enters 4th year
• Help Us Test the Answr Platform
• New Aspiration Book: Open Translation Tools
• Doing Our Part to Create Better Tools and Resources

And if you didn’t receive the newsletter by email, please consider joining our mailing list. It’s low-volume and targeted at people who care about improving the state of software for social change.

Aspiration was giddy happy to be invited to present the latest, greatest version of our “What Should A Web Site Cost” slideware on TechSoup’s December Webinar.

The online event was attended by over 200 great folks who posed excellent questions and comments. You can check out the audio from the webinar, as well as the resource list of great web site implementors and designers.

Thanks to Kami Griffiths at TechSoup for inviting us on over!

Aspiration is delighted to announce that William (Bill) Lester has joined our Board of Directors, effective immediately. Welcome Bill!

Bill is the Executive Director of NonProfit Organizations Knowledge Initiative (NPOKI). A visionary in use of Information and Communications Technologies (particularly in low-resource settings), Bill is well-known in the nonprofit knowledge management and technology communities, and is a popular speaker at many industry gatherings. As Chief Information Officer for EngenderHealth for 15 years, Bill has been instrumental in capturing and sharing the organization’s operational and programmatic best practices and lessons learned. In 2007, he was honored with NTEN’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Bill was elected to the Board of InsideNGO (formerly APVOFM) in 2008. He was an NTEN board member from 2000 - 2007, participates on the advisory committees for NPOWER and KABISSA, and is a NPOKI founding member. A strong proponent of social entrepreneurship, Bill works worldwide to promote and encourage problem-solvers. His personal mission is “Imagine-Build-Connect”.

We are happy and honored to welcome such a passionate and committed innovator to the Aspiration family.

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Aspiration is delighted to be working with Mozilla on Mozilla Service Week, taking place September 14-21, 2009.

We’ll be hosting trainings at the San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center to train other nonprofits on essential online strategy and data security topics.

The driving force behind Mozilla Service Week is the strong belief that everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a great experience when they’re online. You can have a hand in helping organizations and people all over the world experience the joy of using the Web too!

Here’s how to help:

Aspiration was delighted to accept an invitation from Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers to speak at their Annual Member Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Key points were captured in our ever-improving (*gasp*) slideware. We welcome comments, and we’re glad to discuss these essential sustainability processes with anyone who’s interested.